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Youth Staff Picks April 2017 This month's picks are all about celebrating National Poetry Month by highlighting the tradition of poetry and verse in books! Check out some of our Youth Services Staff favorite stories in verse!
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Orangutanka : a story in poems
by Margarita Engle
All the orangutans are ready for a nap in the sleepy depths of the afternoon—all except one. Written in a series of linked poems in the tanka style, an ancient Japanese form of poetry.
Call Number: E ENGLE, MARGARITA
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Science verse
by Jon Scieszka
When the teacher tells his class that they can hear the poetry of science in everything, a student is struck with a curse and begins hearing nothing but science verses that sound very much like some well-known poems.
Call Number: E SCIESZKA, JON
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Step gently out
by Helen Frost
Simple, evocative poetic language and close-up photographs invite youngsters to make observations about the natural world while profiling such subjects as a katydid's eye, a spider on a silken web and a glowing firefly. By the author of Monarch and Milkweed.
Call Number: E FROST, HELEN
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When green becomes tomatoes : Poems for All Seasons
by Julie Fogliano
A poetic celebration of the seasons by the author of If You Want to See a Whale blends gentle illustrations with evocative verses about elements ranging from flowers blooming through sheets of snow and happy frogs dancing in the rain.
Call Number: E FOGLIANO, JULIE
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Another day as Emily
by Eileen Spinelli
Feeling overshadowed by her brother's heroics and a best friend winning a coveted role in the school play, 11-year-old Suzy immerses herself in a summertime school project about Emily Dickinson by imitating the classic author's reclusive ways.
Call Number: JF SPINELLI, EILEEN
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Gone fishing : a novel in verse
by Tamera Will Wissinger
A story told through poems and comic illustrations follows the adventures of 9-year-old Catfish Sam, who loves fishing with his father and who resents the intrusion of his pesky little sister until he figures out how to restore sibling harmony.
Call Number: JF WISSINGER, TAMERA W.
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Inside out & back again
by Thanhha Lai
For all the ten years of her life, Hà has only known Saigon: the thrills of its markets, the joy of its traditions, and the warmth of her friends close by. But now the Vietnam War has reached her home. Hà and her family are forced to flee as Saigon falls, and they board a ship headed toward hope. In America, Hà discovers the foreign world of Alabama: the coldness of its strangers, the dullness of its food . . . and the strength of her very own family.
Call Number: JF LAI, THANHHA
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Little cat's luck
by Marion Dane Bauer
A novel-in-verse companion to Little Dog, Lost finds Patches, an indoor calico cat, venturing outside to chase a golden autumn leaf that flutters by her window, an exploit that suddenly prompts her to embark on a hazardous journey in search of a special place of her own.
Call Number: JF BAUER, MARION D.
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May B.
by Caroline Starr Rose
May is helping out on a neighbor’s Kansas prairie homestead—just until Christmas, says Pa. She wants to contribute, but it’s hard to be separated from her family. Then the unthinkable happens: May is abandoned. Trapped in a tiny snow-covered sod house, isolated from family and neighbors, May must prepare for the oncoming winter. While fighting to survive, May’s memories of her struggles with reading at school come back to haunt her. But she’s determined to find her way home again.
Call Number: JF ROSE, CAROLINE S.
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5 to 1 : a novel
by Holly Bodger
When females are rendered a valuable commodity after decades of gender selection that has caused boys to outnumber girls in India's Koyanagar, a girl who wants to avoid marriage and a boy who is forced to compete for a wife thwart each other before realizing they want the same thing.
Call Number: TEEN BODGER, HOLLY
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Audacity
by Melanie Crowder
A gorgeously told novel in verse written with intimacy and power, Audacity is inspired by the real-life story of Clara Lemlich, a spirited young woman who emigrated from Russia to New York at the turn of the twentieth century and fought tenaciously for equal rights. Bucking the norms of both her traditional Jewish family and societal conventions, Clara refuses to accept substandard working conditions in the factories on Manhattan's Lower East Side. For years, Clara devotes herself to the labor fight, speaking up for those who suffer in silence.
Call Number: TEEN CROWDER, MELANIE
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Caminar
by Skila Brown
Longing to assume a defensive adult role but dissuaded by his mother from confronting soldiers who have murdered a neighbor in his 1981 Guatemalan village, young Carlos joins a band of guerillas in the hope of carrying a warning to his grandmother's mountaintop home.
Call Number: TEEN BROWN, SKILA
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Love & leftovers : a novel in verse
by Sarah Tregay
When her father starts dating a man, 15-year-old Marcie's depressed mother takes her to New Hampshire and just as Marcie starts falling for a great guy, her father brings her back to Iowa, where all of her relationships have become strained.
Call Number: TEEN TREGAY, SARAH
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Up from the sea
by Leza Lowitz
A novel-in-verse follows the experiences of a teen who visits New York on the 10th anniversary of the September 11 terrorist attack, learns the stories of kids whose lives were changed by the tragedy and searches for his estranged American father before returning to his tsunami-stricken home in coastal Japan.
Call Number: TEEN LOWITZ, LEZA
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